English Collocation

 I have cut and pasted the notes below for last week's class:

Grade Breakdown:

Final Exam (Test) is 30%.

This is the vocabulary (words) and grammar from the textbook.

Placement Test: 15%. You did that last week.

Midterm Exam (test) 15%: I will tell you what words to study before.

Homework / classwork: 20%

Attendance: 10%, come to class. For every hour of class you miss, I deduct (minus) 1%. If you miss nine hours, you just fail

Writing: 10%

Rules: Try to talk English.

Please don’t translate something and try to make me read your phone. Don’t talk with your hands or point. No sleeping in this class. This is a classroom, not a bedroom.

Please speak up. If people can’t hear you, you are wasting their time.

The food I detest is an apple.

The celebrity I have met is

Please answer your partner with a sentence in English. Write down your partner’s answer. If I see lots of writing, I will give you 10/10.

Random: no reason / not on purpose

If we answer with a sentence, we can practice grammar.

Detest: hate

Toss: throw

2/8

Make happy: cheer up

Collocation: the natural order of how we talk; there is no reason, just habit, salt and pepper, black and white

Preposition: in, on, at

Write under You. Don’t write under Classmate. Do NOT

write Chinese. Do not write “no” or “I don’t know.”

8. lightsaber

3. My nationality is Taiwanese.

Taiwan is a country. Taiwanese is a nationality.

Detest: hate

Country: America or U.S.A. (noun)

Nationality: American (adj.)

Rules: If your classmate agrees, write down his/her name.

If your classmate disagrees, do NOT write a name.

Use a sentence to practice grammar.

Community service project: Volunteer

1.    RULES: Write down your partner’s (new friend’s) answers in English. I will give you 10/10 if I see lots of writing.

Cheer up: make happy

 

 

 

 

Listening Practice:

Write down what I say. If you do NOT understand, ask:

Could you please repeat that?

How do you spell _________?   Weather   Harry’s

Lightsaber      What happens…     Steve’s

Genre

1.    Where are they?

They are at lumberyard / warehouse.

2.    How is the weather?

It is sunny.

3.    How much time do they have?

They have three minutes.

4.    What color is Harry’s lightsaber?

His lightsaber is green.

5.    What happens to Steve’s head?

His head is cut off.

He was decapitated.

6.    What genre is this movie?

It is science fiction because they have lightsabers.

7.    Harry lost because it took 3 minutes and 18 seconds, but he only had 3 minutes.

I will give 10/10 for homework too.